{"id":294635,"date":"2020-12-19T10:22:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T09:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=294635"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T09:24:54","slug":"kankara-students-miyetti-allah-clears-air-on-involvement-in-negotiating-with-bandits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=294635","title":{"rendered":"Kankara students: Miyetti Allah clears air on involvement in negotiating with bandits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) has denied they negotiated the release of students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State.<br \/>\nThe Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, had said the state government contacted Miyetti Allah to enter into discussion with bandits, in a bid to secure the release of over 330 students abducted from the school.<br \/>\nHowever, the Daily Sun reports that the National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, Baba Othman Ngelzarma, had made it clear such was not the case.<br \/>\nAccording to Ngelzarma, \u201cunless the governor was discussing with the Katsina State branch of the association, but definitely not with the national leadership.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the same vein, the National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Abduallahi Bodejo, also insisted nobody contacted them or discussed with them over the same matter.<br \/>\nBodejosaid: \u201cWe don\u2019t know the bandits and we don\u2019t want to know them and we don\u2019t have anything to do with them. No member of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore even at local levels knows the bandits.\u201d<br \/>\nThe school boys were released on Thursday and met with President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) has denied they negotiated the release of students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State. The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, had said the state government contacted Miyetti Allah to enter into discussion with bandits, in a bid to secure the release of over 330 students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[41,16072,164],"class_list":["post-294635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-kankara-abduction","tag-miyetti-allah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/294636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}